Bill-holder.



No. 788,750. 7 PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

' B. BUDIE.

BILL HOLDER.

I APPLIUATIQN TILED JUNE-27. 1904.

2 BHBBT8-SHEBT 1.

milllllllll' PATENTED MAYZ, 1905. E. BUDIE.

BILL HOLDER.

I APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 27. 1901.

2 sums-51mm .2.

a I w rum I M I I a I I I I 1 I UNITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

BlLL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 788,750, dated May 2,1905.

Application filed June 27, 1904. Serial No. 214,317.

To all whom/ it Wen/y concern.-

Be it known that], EDWARD BUDIE, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bill-Holders, of which the following is aspecification containing a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in bill-holders and the like; andit consists of the novel features herein shown. described, and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a bill-holder embodyingthe principles of my invention and illustrating the operation ofremoving bills. Fig. 2 is a view analogous to Fig. 1 with the billswithdrawn into the billholder. Fig. 3 is atop plan of the bill-holderopen ready to receive the bills and as seen looking in the directionindicated by the arrow in Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section onthe line 4 1 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section on theline 5 5 of Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 is a vertical cross-section on the line 6 6of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a perspective of the spring-roller and clamp.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the main frame of my improvedbill-holder comprises the box 10, which may be pressed out of sheetmetal and have round corners, and the lid 11, connected to the box 10 bythe hinge 12. The front walls of the box 10 and lid 11 are cut away toform the bill-passage 13. Buttons 14 are secured to the front face ofthe front wall of the box immediately below the passage 13. Achange-purse 15 is secured to the top of the lid 11. The spring-rollerand clamp comprise the semitubular portion 16, the heads 17 and 18 atthe ends of the semitubular portion 16, the hinged clamping member 19,hinged to the head 18, the springcatch 20, carried by the free end ofthe clamping-roller 19 to engage in the recess 21 in the head 17. thecanvas 22. attached to the semitubular portion 16 and adapted to windupon said portion and extending outwardly through the bill-passage13,the hook 23 at the outer end of the canvas 22, the pintles 24: and 25,

extending outwardly from the heads 17 and 18, the spring 26, connectingthe pintle 2 1 to the spring-casing 27, and said casing being connectedto one end of the box 10. The pintles 24 and 25 are mounted in bearingsin the ends of the box 10, as shown in Fig. 5.

The canvas 22 is attached to the semitubular portion 16 by turning therear edge of the said portion over upon the edge of the can vas, asshown in Fig. 4.

The semitubular portion 16 forms one member of the clamp and also servesas the body of the roller upon which the bills are wound. The spring 20is manually engaged and disconnected from the recess 21 in the head 17,and the hinged clamping member 19 swings upwardly, so that the bills 28may be laid down upon the canvas 22 with their ends upon thesemitubularportion 16. Then the hinged clamping member 19 is pressed downwardlyupon the bills and the spring again engaged in the head 17.

The tension of the spring 26 is exerted to draw the bills'into the boxthrough the opening 13 and wind the bills and the canvas into a roll.Button-openings 29 are formed in the canvas 22 to engage the buttons 14,so that when the canvas is drawn through the opening 13 against thetension of the spring 26 it may be buttoned and held in its drawn-outposition while the bills are being placed upon the canvas and in theclamp.

A guide-roller 30 is mounted in the box and the canvas runs over theguide-roll, said guide-roll serving to keep the canvas from the edge ofthe box.

The hook 23 engages the edge of the lidll to limit the inward motion ofthe canvas and to serve as a handle for drawing the canvas out.

My device is intended principally for use as a pocket-book for carryingcurrency and change; but it is obvious that it might be used by abill-collector for carrying statements and bills.

As before suggested, the coins may be carried in the coin-purse 15 andthe bills may be carried in the roll. When it is desired to remove oneof the bills from the bill-holder, the hook 9.3 is engaged to pull thecanvas outwardly a short distance through the opening 13, thus unrollingthe bills, and then one or more of the bills may be readily extracted.

I claim- 1. In a bill-holder and the like, the eombination withasuitable box and a lid hinged to the box; there being, a bill-passageleading out of the box, of a spring-roller and clamp comprising thesemitubular portion 16; the heads 17 and 18 at the ends of-thescmitubular portion; the hinged clamping member 19 hinged to one of theheads; the spring-catch 20 carried by the free end of the clampingmember; there being a recess in the other head to receive the catch; thepintles 24 and 25 extending outwardly from the heads; and the spring 26connecting one of the pintles to the box; substantially as specified.

2. In a bill-holder and the like; the combination with a suitable boxand lid for the box, there being a bill-passage leading out of the box,ofa spring-roller mounted in the box; a

the box; of a spring-roller mounted in the box; a clamp carried by thespring-roller;an

apron attached to the spring-roller; and means on the box of holding theapron to resist the tension of the spring-roller; substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD BUDIE.

Vitnesses:

ALFRE A. EICKS, F. C. CRIsLER.

